Word: stress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...General Reading as an Element in Education," and both the subject and the lecturer deserve a large audience. Too many men, in going through college, specialize and neglect their general reading of good literature - and it is on the importance of this general reading that Professor Allen will lay stress...
Wherever Comenius went, in whatever countries he established his schools, he first tried to bring about the thorough study of the mother tongue. On this he laid the greatest stress and with what foresight and judgement we can best determine by the attitude taken at present by the leading universities, among which we can with pride and justice place Harvard among the first to take up this idea and present it in its modern form...
...class from his own personal observations. The use of technical terms should be avoided. The idea should come first and be understood then the term applied afterwards, otherwise the term is memorized without any definite knowledge of its meaning. Avoid authoritative terms and generalizations. There is often too much stress laid on trifling subjects. Statistics are tiring and of no great benefit to the student. Many errors occur in text books, such as misleading statements in regard to the tides, the air about the equator, rain and volcanoes. In the whole course of geographical study, whether it be in determining...
...directed to the fact that the rule of "continuous residence in Cambridge during term-time" is obligatory on all men - except where "special allowance is made for students whose homes are far from Cambridge." It must be obvious to every thinking man that while the Faculty rightfully lays stress upon this disciplinary rule, upon the observance of which the very existence of many of the courses depend, - its action is characterized by all due leniency to Western and Southern men, to whom the addition two or three days at the holidays of often means the ability to pass Christmas...
...College Kodaks, number five is distinctly good and number one is not bad. The editorials are, in general, to the point, and one of them, in particular, lays stress on the want of a course in German conversation, - a subject the CRIMSON treated editorially yesterday morning...